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Huh? NPR Blames ‘White Nostalgia’ for Trump on Classic Rock
newsbusters.org ^ | 3/6/2017 | Christian Toto

Posted on 03/07/2017 8:24:01 AM PST by rktman

Did you know your tax dollars support articles that all but label President Donald Trump racist? And suggest the same of your favorite singers, too?

Consider a new pop culture “think piece” from NPR.

The headline alone is all you need to read: “White Nostalgia Didn't Start With Trump — Just Look At Classic Rock”

Suddenly, the soundtrack to our lives has been thrown under the bus, and we helped fund it. It begins, of course, with calling Trump’s signature appeal racist.

For more than a year, Donald Trump has harped on white nostalgia.

A hearkening back to a rosy, but ambiguous, time in American history with his Make America Great Again slogan propelled his presidential run. It was a message, though, largely not embraced in minority communities, given that blacks, Latinos and women were fighting for equal rights during the same period Trump has indicated he believes America was great (the Industrial Revolution and the post-World War II 1940s and '50s).

Give the NPR scribe credit. He doesn’t mince words. Not a bit.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: classicrock; liberaltalkradio; nostalgia; npr; rock; wth
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To: BenLurkin

And my absolute favorite instrumental:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9y-n9B_XUM


101 posted on 03/07/2017 4:03:23 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: matt1234

There is that. I guess this white song fest could go on for a while.


102 posted on 03/07/2017 4:53:18 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Red Badger

Yay!

You got the joke!


103 posted on 03/07/2017 5:15:59 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ichabod1

And don’t forget Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” on “Dark Side of the Moon.”

Great piano by the late, great Richard Wright, but the vocals are truly amazing.

Mark


104 posted on 03/07/2017 10:27:39 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: IrishBrigade

I’ve always thought the 70s, through the early 80s, had the very best music, at least when it comes to the many types of rock.

You had the greatest works by bands like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP, Gentle Giant, The Alman Brothers Band, Steely Dan, Led Zepplin, Deep Purple, Peter Frampton, Foghat, Aerosmith, Rush, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Styx, and the list goes on and on...

Every time the movie “Dazed and Confused” comes on, I HAVE to watch it! Gotta love a movie with 2 different Black Oak Arkansas songs on the soundtrack! That movie is the sound track to my highschool days. I was a freshman in 76!

Mark


105 posted on 03/07/2017 10:35:50 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: rktman

Thanks so much!

I nearly forgot how much I loved these horn based, funky bands, complete with white-guys! lol

AWB, Sly & The Family Stone, KC & the Sunshine Band, and the one and only, Tower of Power!

Mark


106 posted on 03/07/2017 11:09:59 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: SparkyBass

The “Classic Rock” decade was the BEST for Progressives!

Yes, Genesis, ELP, Kansas, Queen (ok, not really prog, but still...) Gentle Giant, Renaissance, Kate Bush, Dixie Dregs, Allman Brothers (progressive in their own way,) and Rush, and the list goes on!

Love that era!

Mark


107 posted on 03/07/2017 11:16:34 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: ifinnegan

I saw Eric Clapner when I was a teenager during the Derek & the Dominoes Layla tour!................


108 posted on 03/08/2017 6:09:38 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: MarkL

No problem.............. At a jam last night we played a funked up “Word Up”. Fun stuff.


109 posted on 03/08/2017 6:41:11 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

NPR is racist.


110 posted on 03/08/2017 6:50:57 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

N-aturally

P-referred

R-acists

?


111 posted on 03/08/2017 6:55:37 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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